Riya Sen

Riya Sen (Bengali: রিয়া সেন [ˈrija ˈʃen]; born Riya Dev Varma on 24 January 1981) is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who comes from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child actress in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget sex comedy directed by N. Chandra. Some of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2003) in Hinglish, Shaadi No. 1 (2005) Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005).
Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak's music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. She has been a heartthrob sensation throughout India. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness music video with the aim of dispelling popular myths about the disease. She also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care. Riya has faced controversies such as a MMS clip with actor Ashmit Patel, her semi-nude photograph on photographer Dabboo Ratnani's annual calendar and her on-screen kisses in a conservative Indian film industry.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Role	Co-artists	Language	Other notes
1991	Vishkanya	Jag Mundhra	Young Nishi	Pooja Bedi, Kabir Bedi, Moon Moon Sen	Hindi	As a child artist
1999	Taj Mahal	Bharathi Raja	Machakanni	Manoj Bharatiraaja	Tamil
	Good Luck	Manoj Bhatnaghar	Priya	Prashanth, Raghuvaran, Sukanya	Tamil
2001	Style	N. Chandra	Sheena	Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan, Shilpi Mudgal, Tara Deshpande	Hindi
	Mone Pore Tomake	Mantajur Rahman Akbar	Riya	Humayun Faridi, Riyaz Ahmed, Shanta Islam	Bengali	Bangladeshi Film
2002	Dil Vil Pyar Vyar	Anant Mahadevan	Gaurav's girlfriend	R. Madhavan, Sanjay Suri, Namrata Shirodkar, Jimmy Shergill, Sonali Kulkarni, Hrishitaa Bhatt	Hindi	Cameo appearance
2003	Saazish	Rajat Rawail	–	Milind Soman, Aryan Vaid, Reshmi Ghosh, Usha Bachani, Suhas Khandke, Rajpal Yadav	Hindi
	Qayamat: City Under Threat	Harry Baweja	Sheetal	Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty, Sanjay Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Isha Koppikar, Neha Dhupia	Hindi
	Jhankaar Beats	Sujoy Ghosh	Preeti	Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Juhi Chawla, Shayan Munshi, Rinke Khanna	Hinglish	The language of the film was a mix of Hindi and English
2004	Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa	Atul Agnihotri	Kamini	Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Bhoomika Chawla, Helen, Rati Agnihotri, Renuka Shahane	Hindi	Cameo appearance
	Plan	Hriday Shetty	Shalini	Sanjay Dutt, Sanjay Suri, Dino Morea, Priyanka Chopra, Sameera Reddy	Hindi	Item number
	Arasatchi	N. Maharajan	Iruvathu Vaisu	Arjun Sarja, Lara Dutta, Raghuvaran, Vivek, Lakshmi	Tamil	Item number
2005	Ananthabhadram	Santhosh Sivan	Bhama	Kavya Madhavan, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Manoj K Jayan, Kalabhavan Mani, Biju Menon, Revathi	Malayalam
	Shaadi No. 1	David Dhawan	Madhuri	Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan, Sharman Joshi, Esha Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Ayesha Takia	Hindi
	Tum... Ho Na!	N.S. Raj Bharath	Reema	Preeti Ganguly, Sumit Nijhawan, Nethra Raghuraman, Jackie Shroff	Hindi
	James	Rohit Jugraj	–	Mohit Ahlawat, Mohan Agashe, Snehal Dabi, Nisha Kothari	Hindi	Item number
	Silsiilay	Khalid Mohammed	Anushka	Tabu, Bhoomika Chawla, Jimmy Shergill, Rahul Bose, Celina Jaitley, Ashmit Patel, Divya Dutta	Hindi
	It Was Raining That Night	Mahesh Manjrekar	–	Riyaz Ahmed, Victor Banerjee, Mahesh Manjrekar, Dawn Moeller, Moon Moon Sen, Sushmita Sen	English
2006	Apna Sapna Money Money	Sangeeth Sivan	Shivani	Ritesh Deshmukh, Celina Jaitley, Anupam Kher, Koena Mitra, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff	Hindi
	The Bachelor	Ajay Sinha	Nisha	Sharman Joshi, Raima Sen, Manoj Pahwa, Himani Shivpuri, Manish Nagpal	Hindi	Unfinished
	Rokda	Ramesh Kotar	–	Arshad Warsi, Ashmit Patel, Aashish Chaudhary, Shamita Shetty, Tanushree Dutta	Hindi	Unfinished
	Love You Hamesha	Kailash Surendranath	Meghna	Rishma Malik, Sonali Bendre, Akshaye Khanna, Nirupa Roy	Hindi	Originally scheduled for release in 1999, credited as Rhea Dev Varma
2007	Heyy Baby	Sajid Khan	–	Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Vidya Balan	Hindi	Item number
2008	Nenu Meeku Telusa...?	Ajay Shastri	Madhu	Manoj Manchu, Sneha Ullal	Telugu	Dubbed into Tamil.
	Heroes		–	Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Sohail Khan	Hindi
	Zor Lagaa Ke... Hayya	Girish Girija Joshi	–	Mithun Chakraborty, Mahesh Manjrekar, Seema Biswas, Gulshan Grover	Hindi	Unfinished
	Love Khichdi	Srinivas Bhashyam	–	Randeep Hooda, Rituparna Sengupta, Divya Dutta, Rakhi Sawant	Hindi
2009	Paying Guests	Paritosh Painter	Avni	G. Asrani, Sayali Bhagat, Aashish Chaudhary, Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffrey, Celina Jaitley, Viju Khote, Inder Kumar, Johnny Lever, Paintal, Chunky Pandey, Delnaaz Paul, Vatsal Seth, Shreyas Talpade	Hindi
2010	Benny and Babloo	Yunus Sajawal	Riya	Kay Kay Menon, Rajpal Yadav, Shweta Tiwari	Hindi
	Abohoman	Rituparno Ghosh	Chandrika	Jishu Sengupta, Deepankar De, Mamata Shankar, Ananya Chatterjee	Bengali
2011	Noukadubi / Kashmakash (Hindi dubbed version)	Rituparno Ghosh	Kamala	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jishu Sengupta, Raima Sen	Bengali (dubbed in Hindi)	First appearance of the two sisters Riya and Raima together
2013	Krrish 3	Rakesh Roshan		Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, Kangna Ranaut, Vivek Oberoi, Priyanka Chopra	Hindi